The Startup Kids

The Startup Kids (2012)

The Startup Kids is a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. It contains interviews with founders of Vimeo, Dropbox, Soundcloud and more who talk about how they started their company and their lives as an entrepreneur. Along with that people from the tech scene speaks about the startup environment including the venture capitalist Tim Draper and MG Siegler, tech blogger at Techcrunch.

Date of release
2012-12-01
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (15)
Runtime
55m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Vala Halldorsdottir, Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir

Casting

Interesting facts

The Startup Kids is a documentary about young technology entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. The hour-long movie was created by two Icelandic women, Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir, and was released in 2012. It contains interviews with startup founders who relay stories about the founding of their respective companies and their lives as entrepreneurs. The film also features interviews of notable startup founders and investors from the US and Europe about the startup environment, including the venture capitalist Tim Draper and MG Siegler, tech blogger at Techcrunch.

Production and funding

The two filmmakers cited that they were inspired to create the documentary following their own successes in business so that the film could provide motivation to up-and-coming startup founders.

To finance its production, the filmmakers raised US$23,000 in 2011 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, surpassing the established $7,000 fundraising goal.

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